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Drexel, Penn professors: Race should no longer be used in genetic research

Penn survey: Half of Americans concerned Zika will spread to where they live

Penn student newspaper report leads to Cruz spokesperson's firing

Penn receives $1.4M CDC grant for West Philly Promise Zone

West Philadelphia Row Home

Penn's new $27M center will advance breakthrough T-cell cancer therapy

Penn Novartis Center

UPenn generated $14.3 billion economic impact on Pennsylvania in FY15

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Penn study examines how parasites break into the brain

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Food Trust, Penn students team up to make food trucks healthy

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Penn medical researchers find important link in kidney regeneration

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Penn students create concept to speed up beer fermentation process

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Penn Vet professor to receive Louis Braille Award

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, star of Broadway hit 'Hamilton,' coming to UPenn

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Penn student's death ruled suicide; 10th in three years at university

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Penn professor, leader in topology, changing the face of math education

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Penn researchers create world's thinnest nanoscale plates for structural engineering

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Penn police: Armed felon arrested following car chase near campus

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UPenn linguist researching Philly 'accent' in American Sign Language

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Drexel, UPenn say study abroad students safe after Paris attacks

UPenn not revoking Bill Cosby's honorary degree

Wireless power? UPenn grad's company uBeam declassifies secrets to prove it

Fundraiser launched to support Penn Vet mobile unit, clinical trials

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Penn student arrested in frat house arson investigation

Penn Humanities Forum, Museum explore sexuality & gender

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NOMsense Bakery gives UPenn the perfect pick-me-up

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Higher Education

Upcoming 'Pennovation' center gets operator

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Carly Fiorina to speak at Philly conference

Survey: Victims reluctant to report sexual assault at Penn

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Local universities launch pilot program to reduce supermarket waste

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With pair of new hands, Zion Harvey discharged from CHOP

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UPenn data expert: using Ashley Madison data “completely wrong and unethical”

Doctors at CHOP perform world's first bilateral hand transplant on child

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Trump's UPenn classmates don't remember him

Penn study: Low-cost fixes on abandoned properties can reduce crime

Home Rehabilitaion

Penn researchers to use Twitter to study heart health

Crime and Courts

UPenn grad files suit alleging sexual assault by former frat brother

UPenn Phi Kappa Psi

Under simulated conditions new teen drivers often crashed

Teen Crash

Crime and Courts

Two men charged in scheme to defraud Penn of $3M

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UPenn grad Elizabeth Bank's directorial debut 'Pitch Perfect 2' tops box office

UPenn hospital releases its first patient with artificial heart

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Inside the 'Shark Tank' at Wharton School

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The 121st annual Penn Relays

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Penn students pledge 10 percent of future income to charity

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Penn, UArts rank among top 50 animation schools in the U.S.

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